Posts with keyword: entrepreneurship

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On Complex Problems

Fri Jul 26 21:41:00 2013

Your latest Web 2.0 business idea might be cool. It might even make you rich. But it doesn't prove you're a genius.
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Starting a High Tech Business: Finding a Market

Mon Nov 1 12:07:00 2010

When you're starting a business, you'll hear a lot about product/market fit. Marc Andreesen says: In a great market -- a market with lots of real potential customers -- the market pulls product out of the startup. The market needs to be fulfilled and the market will be fulfilled, by the first viable product that comes along. The product doesn't need to be great; it just has to basically work. And, the market doesn't care how good the team is, as long as the team can produce that viable product. In short, customers are knocking down your door to
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Start Your Business Now

Sat Oct 18 07:03:00 2008

Paul Graham has a new essay on Why to start a startup in a bad economy. Actually, he doesn't necessarily think starting in bad times is better than good times, just that there's nothing special about good times when it comes to starting high-tech businesses. He says that the state of the economy is a rounding error compared to the effects the founders have. The economic situation is apparently so grim that some experts fear we may be in for a stretch as bad as the mid seventies. When Microsoft and Apple were founded. As those examples suggest, a
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Starting a High Tech Business: Commitment

Fri Nov 9 09:27:00 2007

I'm starting a new business called Kynetx (nothing to see there yet). As I go through some of the things I do, I'm planning to blog them. The whole series will be here. This is the fourth installment. You may find my efforts instructive. Or you may know a better way--if so, please let me know! Tuesday night, after Defrag was over, I was at dinner with Andre Durand, the CEO of Ping ID. At one point we were talking about startups, something Andre has a lot of experience in, and he spoke about commitment in a way that
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Starting a High Tech Business: Get a Clubhouse

Thu Oct 25 08:34:00 2007

I'm starting a new business called Kynetx (nothing to see there yet). As I go through some of the things I do, I'm planning to blog them. The whole series will be here. This is the third installment. You may find my efforts instructive. Or you may know a better way---if so, please let me know! One of the things I realized pretty quick after getting serious about a new startup was that you need a clubhouse. It's fine to work from home, meet in coffee shops, and go cheap at first, but eventually you want to get real
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Starting a High Tech Business: Legal and Banking

Tue Oct 9 09:02:00 2007

I'm starting a new business called Kynetx (nothing to see there yet). As I go through some of the things I do, I'm planning to blog them. The whole series will be here. You may find my efforts instructive. Or you may know a better way--if so, please let me know! Obviously one of the things you have to do to start a business is actually set up the legal entity. This is actually easier than it first appears. The first question is what kind of entity to set up. The two basic choices in the US are a
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Why to Not Not Start a Startup

Wed Mar 28 22:30:00 2007

With all the ETech stuff I've been immersed in, it's easy to forget there's other stuff happening. This Paul Graham essay dispelling myths about startups is one you don't want to miss. It goes well with Marc Hedlund's tutorial from Monday.
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